The Snatch Racket: The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America
- ISBN-10
- 1640124322
- ISBN-13
- 9781640124325
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-03
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
- Author
- Carolyn Cox
Description
The Snatch Racket will take the reader behind the scenes of kidnapping crimes that terrified the American public in the 1930s.
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